A Georgia politician wants to pass a law that would criminalize
so-called lewd photoshopping, Fox News reports.

State Rep. Earnest Smith had already been pushing the bill but
got particularly worked up after discovering photos of his head
photoshopped onto a porn star's body on the Georgia
Politics Unfiltered blog.

Blogger Andre Walker posted the images to
protest the bill, which would make pasting someone into an
obscene photo a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine,
according to Fox.

I would simply
remind Representative Smith that he's a public figure, and just
like someone had the protected right to depict former President
George W. Bush as a monkey, I have the protected right to
Photoshop the head of any elected
official onto the body of anything I chose.

The First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects all
forms of speech, not just spoken word. That's why House Bill 39
is so asinine. It attempts to regulate speech and I doubt it
would stand up in a court of law.

When Savannah Now asked Smith if he was concerned
about prohibiting parodies, which are protected by the First
Amendment, he said, "No one has a right to make fun of
anyone. You have a right to speak, but no one has a right to
disparage another person. It’s not a First Amendment
right."

One anonymous lawmker shared his opinions on Smith, telling
Fox News, "He's the conductor of his own
crazy train."